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Cutaneous manifestations of drug hypersensitivity can be serious and potentially life threatening and may prevent effective drug therapy. T cells play an important role in the pathology of drug hypersensitivity reactions. Classical studies suggest that T-cell activation requires drug bioactivation, covalent binding to protein and antigen processing to stimulate an immune response. Recent studies have shown that drugs can also be presented to T cells in the absence of antigen processing and drug metabolism. In this article, sulfamethoxazole is used as a paradigm to describe the chemical mechanisms involved in the initiation and maintenance of an aberrant drug antigen specific T-cell response. Presentation of the same drug to different individuals can cause a variety of skin diseases. Such reactions have been classified according to the phenotype and functionality of the T-cell response. This review summarises the different forms of cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions and describes how T-cell clones generated from hypersensitive patients have been used to study the cellular mechanisms of anticonvulsant hypersensitivity. Potential uses of in vitro cell culture assays for patient diag

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Author

Dean J. Naisbitt

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0300-483X)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Life Sciences)